Classes
Exploring Engineering
Patents and Intellectual Property
Project Management and Societal Impact
Electrical Circuit Analysis
Linear Systems and Signals
Electronic Circuits and Design
Digital Systems
Semiconductor Electronics
Electronics Integration
Robotics
Signal Processing
Control Theory and Design
Engineering Electromagnetics
Bio
Tim Brooks has almost 40 years of experience in electrical and electronic engineering, progressively advancing from an engineering intern to the COO of Key Electronics, an electronics manufacturing services company. He has worked in sensors and transducers, RF signal processing, lighting control and manufacturing. Tim has been employed by Fortune 50 companies, startups and family owned enterprises. He has enjoyed teaching and mentoring, teaching electronics and microelectronics fabrication at the college level, and presenting to government entities, legal teams and industry consortiums, as well as conducting internal training for his employees, peers and customers. Tim has managed machine shops, automation engineers, IT systems, manufacturing facilities, CAD groups, optical designers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, compliance engineers and test labs.
Tim is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a member of the Institute of Printed Circuits (IPC), the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) and several engineering and scholastic honor societies. He was recognized as a Highland Community College Distinguished Alumnus in 2017.
Tim serves as an adviser, volunteer, board member or consultant to numerous companies, nonprofits and educational organizations.
Education
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois – Urbana, 1990
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Bradley University, 1982
Patents and Publications
Patent 11,899,052, Trailer Lighting Outage Detection Circuit, Issued Feb 13, 2024
Patent 11,372,039, Trailer Lighting Outage Detection Circuit, Issued Jun 28, 2022
Patent 10,794,946, Trailer lighting outage detection circuit, Issued Oct 6, 2020
Patent 10,151,784, Trailer lighting outage detection circuit, Issued Dec 11, 2018
Patent 10,032,753, Flexible Lighting Device Having Both Visible and Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes, Issued Jul 24, 2018
Patent 9,995,780, Trailer Lighting Outage Detection Circuit, Issued Jun 12, 2018
Wearable Electronics, Various Presentations, Fall 2018
Patent 9,615,417, Dual Polarity LED Lighting Device, Issued Apr 4, 2017
Patent 9,187,032, Exclusive OR (XOR) lamp driver and lamp, Issued Nov 17, 2015
Patent 9,174,503, Environment activated automatic shut-off switch system and method, Issued Nov 3, 2015
Patent 9,087,973, Egress and/or Flicker-Free Lighting Device with Persistent Luminescence, Issued Jul 21, 2015
Patent 9,045,093, Trailer wiring over-current protection, Issued Jun 2, 2015
Patent 8,963,195, Flexible Lighting Device Including a Heat-Spreading Layer, Issued Feb 24, 2015
Patent 8,912,721, Exclusive or (XOR) lamp driver and lamp, Issued Dec 16, 2014
Brooks, Timothy W. “Merging Light, Electronics and Lamination into Automotive Lighting,” 2014 SAE Congress, April 1, 2014, Paper 2014-01-0430.
Brooks, Timothy W. “LEDs Light the Way for SuperTruck,” SAE Automotive Engineering and SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-0753, June 4, 2013.
Patent 8,740,628, Lamp Plugs Providing Enhanced Functionality, Issued Dec 20, 2011
Patent 6,855,006, Hybrid electrical connector for a lamp-to-harness interface, Issued Feb 15, 2005
Patent 6,758,587, Light emitting diode license lamp with reflector, Issued Jul 6, 2004
Patent 6,031,451, Electrical circuits for turn signal, hazard signal and brake signal lights, Issued Feb 29, 2000
Brooks, Timothy W. “A Lead-Free Alloy for Electronics Soldering,” Circuits Assembly October 1, 1993.
Patent 5,247,280, Combination vehicle flasher having first and second flash rates and duty rates, Issued Sept 21, 1993
Brooks, Timothy W. “An Acoustic Charge Transport Signal Processing Module Featuring a Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic Chip Carrier,” 39th Electronics Components Conference, May 1, 1989.
